Category: Prizes

We are delighted to announce that the Balakian Prize 2022 has been awarded to May Hawas’s Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public.  Hawas’s book is a critical work of remarkable originality that is consistently analytical and argumentative in its presentation of ideas, with a strong comparative perspective. It examines a corpus of novels and travelogues […]

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The AILC-ICLA ECARE Committee is pleased to announce that the deadline for the following Early-Career prizes has been extended to 15 May 2022: Best Translation Prize:  This award is for an outstanding translation in the form or an article, chapter, or other short work, published by an early-career scholar in the period between ICLA Congresses.  First Book Subvention:  This […]

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The AILC-ICLA highly values participation in its work, including at the Congress, of graduate students and Early Career Researchers in comparative literature and related fields. This work is coordinated by its  ECARE Committee, which is pleased to announce the following deadline extensions to 1 March 2022: Best Translation Prize:  This award is for an outstanding translation in the […]

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